From: Geoff Collyer <geoff@collyer.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] insularity
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 14:48:00 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7e35c7b619f4bb7936677f2b26f0b69a@collyer.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1079546956.14420.730.camel@zevon>
davel touches many of the relevant points. I have no objection to
David asking questions, per se (though some of them did suggest a real
lack of effort, but that's not fatal). I have no problem with David's
use of English, or anybody else's. I'm glad to see others taking an
interest in Plan 9.
What I did, and do, object to is a persistently snarky attitude among
someone asking for help, particularly in response to answers intended
to be helpful and responsive to his questions, as the people answering
them understood them. His apparent perception that we're all trying
to insult him (`I knew that.', `I knew that.') probably doesn't help
his attitude, but I don't believe that these apparently-perceived
insults were intended as insults. If he can't find a way to get along
with people here without irritating large numbers of us frequently,
it's going to be an unpleasant experience for him and many of us.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-17 22:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2004-03-16 22:54 ` [9fans] Novice question - run as other 9nut
2004-03-17 7:18 ` David Tolpin
2004-03-17 8:10 ` Geoff Collyer
2004-03-17 8:24 ` David Tolpin
2004-03-17 8:55 ` Geoff Collyer
2004-03-17 9:04 ` David Tolpin
2004-03-17 9:19 ` Bruce Ellis
2004-03-17 10:31 ` boyd, rounin
2004-03-17 14:01 ` Dave Lukes
2004-03-17 16:22 ` [9fans] insularity rog
2004-03-17 16:32 ` Aharon Robbins
2004-03-17 16:36 ` suspect
2004-03-17 16:48 ` lucio
2004-03-17 18:09 ` Dave Lukes
2004-03-17 19:26 ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
2004-03-18 13:50 ` Dave Lukes
2004-03-17 22:48 ` Geoff Collyer [this message]
2004-03-17 23:11 ` David Presotto
2004-03-18 7:47 ` boyd, rounin
2004-03-18 2:45 ` boyd, rounin
2004-03-17 17:53 ` Dave Lukes
2004-03-17 19:12 ` Latchesar Ionkov
2004-03-17 18:56 ` vdharani
2004-03-18 2:39 ` boyd, rounin
2004-03-17 9:33 ` [9fans] Novice question - run as other 9nut
2004-03-17 8:54 ` David Tolpin
2004-03-17 8:56 ` Charles Forsyth
2004-03-17 9:07 ` David Tolpin
2004-03-17 9:17 ` Charles Forsyth
2004-03-17 9:28 ` David Tolpin
2004-03-17 10:08 ` 9nut
2004-03-17 16:52 [9fans] insularity Noah Evans
2004-03-17 17:24 ` ron minnich
2004-03-17 17:25 ` andrey mirtchovski
2004-03-17 17:43 ` Dave Lukes
2004-03-17 17:59 ` rog
2004-03-17 17:58 ` Dave Lukes
2004-03-17 18:19 ` Don Bailey
2004-03-17 18:18 ` David Presotto
2004-03-18 7:23 ` boyd, rounin
2004-03-18 1:05 ` bs
2004-03-18 1:20 ` Taj Khattra
2004-03-17 17:53 Noah Evans
2004-03-17 18:11 Noah Evans
2004-03-18 2:08 Noah Evans
2004-03-18 8:14 ` Michael H. Collins
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